Make Film History: Opening up the Archives to Young Filmmakers at the Cork International Film Festival

As cultural heritage organisations digitise their collections and increase public access, including Cork International Film Festival's new Digital Archive, moving image portals like the IFI Player, RTÉ Archives, BFI Player and BBC iPlayer provide audiences with virtual screening rooms to view their shared audiovisual history on demand. But the creative reuse of moving image archive material remains problematic, beset by questions of copyright law, rights clearance and “fair dealing” exceptions. The Make Film History network is addressing this problem by developing a new, sustainable model for the creative reuse of archive material for non-commercial use. 

Presented by the project’s key facilitators, Ciara Chambers, Head of Film and Screen Media at UCC, and Shane O’Sullivan, Filmmaking Lecturer, Kingston School of Art, this session explores the project and explains how to get involved, as well as analysing issues pertaining to copyright, ethics and the aesthetic and illustrative function of archival appropriation in a range of visual forms.

This session can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/476849219/da8d4a1307

Speakers:

Ciara Chambers - Head of Film and Screen Media, UCC

Shane O’Sullivan - Filmmaker and Senior Lecturer, Kingston School of Art